5 Staging Ideas when Listing Your Home in the Fall
When considering selling your home in the fall, it can be a great idea to add a few small seasonal elements to make your home feel cozy and inviting. Here are some ideas to help you make your home appeal to fall home buyers:
Embrace the Colors of Fall
Depending on the condition of your home, you might consider a fresh coat of paint. This is because a fresh coat of paint can make a huge impact on the overall appearance of not just the room in question, but your home in its entirety. What color you decide to use may or may not be influenced by the season. While you should always lean towards neutral colors, you might consider accent walls or cabinets in browns or dark tones of red or green if you think they would work. The cost to paint an interior room is generally flexible, and dependent on the size of room in question, and the products that you decide to use.
Fall Wall, Counter, and Room Decor
Although, you should always keep the counter tops nearly clear when potential home buyers are viewing your home. For the fall season, it can be a fun idea to add small elements like place mats, fruit, and leaf décor to your tables or counters. When it comes to wall and room décor, autumn colored accents such as throw pillows, throw rugs and candles can be excellent finishing touches to the room.
Take Advantage of Natural Lighting Options
Regardless of the season lighting is an essential element of home staging. In fall, in particular, it’s all about enhancing the twilight or sunset and complementing of all the fall colors. Popular and contemporary lighting options include accent and track lighting, pot lights, and contemporary pendants. Another great option is to install recessed lighting on a dimmer switch, which will allow you to control the brightness of the room to complement the mood outside.
The Scent of Fall
The aroma of pumpkin, leaves, apple pie and cinnamon evoke the warm and cozy feelings that so many people associate with fall. Candles are nice and actually baking something “fall-like” before a showing is a sure way to make potential buyers feel more at home during a showing.
Bringing the Outdoors Inside
Being able to see the beauty of fall from very room in your home is essential, so make sure that all windows are kept clean and that drapes are tied back during the showing. Depending on the weather outside during a showing, you might consider opening your windows to allow the fresh air in. This is a popular way to create a flow between nature outside and the atmosphere you’re trying to create in your home. Depending on how much money you are able to spend when preparing to sell your home you might also accent the windows with fall-like window treatments to create an even easier flow. If you don’t have these treatments but are interested, contacting a professional stager can prove helpful, and often they can get things like this at a reasonable price.